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The Manual of Juggling by Max Holden (1884-1949) is a classic introduction to the art and skill of juggling, illustrating the various ball throwing techniques, along with how to juggle clubs, plates, hoops, hats, and devil sticks (as well as spinning top hats and plates). This is a facsimile reprint of the 1947 text.

R. Austin Freeman's The Exploits of Danby Croker (1916) involves mistaken identities, art forgery, antique swindles, and even a little cross-dressing. There's a price to be paid for breaking the law, but who's going to pay it? This rare collection of stories is an enjoyable romp through crime and romance. Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers (1900) follows the criminal adventures of Simon Carne, charming gentleman rogue and master of disguise, as he spends a season in England stealing as much loot as he can from the upper crust. Diamonds, gold, and even a racehorse, vanish without a trace. And what does the eccentric detective Klimo have to do with all of this?

First published in the wake of World War II (1948), Linebarger's Psychological Warfare is the primary introductory text on the use of overt and covert propaganda, still used today by students and researchers. It was updated in 1954 as the author grappled with the implications of the Cold War. This enhanced hardcover edition includes both the original 1948 text and the additional chapters of the second edition, along with a new introduction with biographical details by Joseph A. Dixon.

Supernatural Detectives 4 includes the six Shiela Crerar stories, following her adventures with otherworldly, supernatural creatures. It also includes the full-length novel, The Undying Monster (1922), featuring the "Supersensitive" Luna Bartendale as she confronts a cruel bestial creature that haunts the lineage of an old family.

Stories of strange bacteria and other microbes. Horror, crime, romance, science fiction . . . microscopic organisms are met in all.

This collection of essays brings to life the story of the final days of the American War of Independence, culminating in the Battle of Yorktown. The authors detail and describe people, places, and circumstances significant to the war that both founded a nation and formed its character. Men and women, brave or treacherous, brash or petty, add to the human side of these remarkable events that led to the victory at Yorktown. Chapters include essays on Washington, Lafayette, Cornwallis, De Grasse, Benedict Arnold, Jack Jouette, John Paul Jones, Baron von Steuben, and others.

Champion checkers player William F. Ryan (1907-1954), known as "The Bronx Comet," provides strategies and tips for successful checkers game play in this informative book. Ryan won the American Championship in 1946, the World Championship in 1949, and the world's first blindfold tournament. Checkers is an easy game to learn, but holds its rightful place as one of the oldest and intellectually challenging board games in the world.

Ancient rock art is better known in western North America, but it is also an important feature in the historical landscape of eastern North America. This booklet reprints a report first published in 1934 by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. Donald A. Cadzow, an archaeologist, surveyed the petroglyphs discovered on certain rocks in the lower Susquehanna River, between York County and Lancaster County. In addition, petroglyphs from other parts of the state are noted.

William A. Berg discusses the origin of the horses (particularly the Appaloosas and Pintos) of the northern plains tribes, with particular emphasis on the careful breeding and horse raising of the Nez Percé. This is an enlightening theory that intertwines the stories of several significant historical figures, from Captain Bonneville to Lewis and Clark.

Clad only in a filmy nightdress, brutally murdered Marguerite Scholl lies horribly dead in the bedroom of her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, her throat cut so deeply that her head has been nearly severed from her body.Who among the free-loving and loose-living denizens of the Village hated the beautiful blonde stenographer with such awful passion as to do this dark and bloody thing? Police suspicion lands fast on Marguerite's live-in boyfriend, struggling artist Bob Crocker. But seasoned crime reporter Peter Adams, who seemingly always manages to be on hand for a murder, thinks Bob is innocent. ("The lice!" he raves about the perfunctory police investigation. "They're so damn sure Crocker bumped this girl they don't even bother to look around!")Spurred by the weird writing and cryptic symbols left at the scene of the crime, Peter, along with another of Bob's women friends, Houston King, looks into Marguerite's hidden past in the backwoods of Pennsylvania to find a motive for murder. There the pair finds stranger things than ever were seen even in bohemian Greenwich Village. . . .Inspired by events in a notorious and bizarre 1928 slaying, The Hex Murder is an original and engrossing detective novel, a "shuddery" [Saturday Review] vintage classic back in print for the first time in over eighty years.

Duddington Pell Chalmers is a young man of taste, class, and girth. As trustee for a local art museum, he is called in by police when the troublesome curator is murdered and soon finds himself at odds with the official enquiry. There is no shortage of suspects among local artists, art dealers, and collectors, while motives become muddled when it is discovered that murder was not the only crime. Chalmers knows that time is of the essence, or the police will arrest his artist friend, bringing ruin to a bright career, but can he follow the clues to unmask the murderer? John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) was better known for his early works starring detective Ashton-Kirk and later mysteries featuring Philadelphia private investigator Jerry Mooney (the latter published under the pseudonym Kerry O'Neil). The Museum Murder was first published in 1929.Additional mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.

Learn to tie knots, splice rope, and use rope in magic tricks done by famous magicians! First published in 1920, Alfred C. Gilbert's (1884-1961) classic covers a variety of useful knots as well as trick knots that can be used in stage illusions and close-up magic.

Bromley Barnes is a retired Chief from the Treasury Dept. often enlisted for cases of national security. Trent's Last Case investigates an industrial magnate. The four "Divinations of Kala Persad" focus on an intuitive Indian national who aids a young English detective. Gallagher is a street-smart newsboy who helps track down a murderer.

Ed MacIntyre was due for a nervous breakdown, induced by the grind of pounding out radio soap opera scripts. So he bade farewell to the show, and joined his collaborator Walt Tuttle in managing a small town drug store. But if the radio crime wave had been unnerving, it was a sedative compared to the real-life murders that hit Hamsted.

Connie Waring didn't want to sing with a band; she wanted to be a concert pianist. But a spot on a home-talent radio program wasn't likely to get her there. So she took on a job with dark, hawkish Gale Ullman who already had one too many women in his life. And she found his band was not only a thing of sound but fury. . . . There was Mandy Martin, beautiful firebrand singer, fiercely possessive of all things-especially Gale Ullman. And Tait Gilmore, trumpet player, who liked his music hot- Then a mysterious girl tried to see Connie in Chicago where she didn't know anyone. . . . And in a small prairie town where the band was appearing for a week's stand the murderer struck, and struck again. . . .Edith Howie writes with practiced skill, and the flawless timing of good jazz. Her style is muted-tuned to terror, firing your suspicions until you begin to wonder if you aren't somehow involved, too. You are-to the tune of hours of suspense. The Band Played Murder was first published in 1946. This edition includes a bibliographic introduction by Curtis Evans.

Murder in the Family: Helen Cauldron Cromer is mistress of the lovely old manor house, Cauldron's Folly, in the hills of Tennessee. With her live her cousin, John Cauldron, a young artist named Rawley who is evaluating the manor's paintings, and three servants. Her brother, Burk, also spends much time there. When the story opens the family is awaiting the trial of the murderer of Helen's daughter, Lucy, who was heir to the Folly. Helen has called in her girlhood sweetheart, Calvin Morse, a lawyer who now lives in New York, because she believes attempts are being made to kill her, too.Calvin soon discovers her fears are well founded and the threat comes from someone close to Helen. The solution hinges on the late Peter Cauldron's will. By its terms Burk got practically nothing, Helen everything. But Burk's children can inherit the estate, and Burk is about to marry beautiful Rita Rand who is indirectly implicated in Lucy's murder. Calvin uncovers other suspects-people who stand to benefit by Helen's death. Can he discover the one who is trying to murder her? A gripping finale brings to light a deadly plot.Nice People Murder: There was good reason for lawyer Stanley Hazlitt to get another legal expert to draw a new will for his brother T. D. Hazlitt, wealthy steel magnate. T. D. had discovered that his wife was in love with another man, and he had determined to replace the old will. Brother Stanley expected to be chief beneficiary. So Jeff Ryder, astute young attorney, and his friend Capt. Cal Kent, just back from Korea, were summoned to Hazlitt's summer home, a great house dramatically built on a rocky promontory on the Maine coast. Everybody seemed to know that T. D. was making a new will although it was supposed to be a profound secret. Before the will is signed T. D. is murdered and suspicion fastens on his wife-whom Cal Kent had known when they were much younger-and on the man she loves. Jeff and Cal must follow their own leads through motives and accusations in order to bring the killer to justice.Mary Hastings Bradley's writing is distinctly above average. This novel is an exciting yarn for all who enjoy first rate mysteries and suspense novels. The background is unusual, eerie, and awesome. The people in the novel are an unusual group skillfully depicted. The plot is ingenious, well-contrived, and its incidents move to a conclusion that is unexpected and convincing.For more vintage mystery reprints, visit Coachwhip Books.

Nice People Poison: "A tray of cocktail glasses, a shaker of martinis, and a glass of Bourbon and water. Five people, Nicholas Parr estimated, had access to that highball in the pantry. The husband. The sister. The maid. Tod Burton. Chet Taggart. . . . One of the five had put arsenic in the Bourbon."Attorney Nicholas Parr's investigation skillfully uncovers motive after motive in these five savory and unsavory lives which might have inspired murder. Veronica King had just changed her will, leaving her large estate to her young sister instead of her husband, Roger. The lives of the others, who were in the King mansion the fatal night, were entwined with the lives of the Kings. Each clue leads deeper into the tangle of jealousies, fears, and schemes. The events of the first murder are reenacted, and in the midst of this grisly drama, a second murder is done-a murder meant for someone else.Nice People Poison is for those who like mystery and excitement and for readers who revel in tales of high life and its people knowingly and realistically portrayed. Enjoy following the agile sleuthing of Nicholas Parr as he pursues the slender clues to a cleverly hidden solution.Murder in Room 700: The victim is a famous New York playwright, dead in a hotel room, while Mrs. Virginia Channing works feverishly to obliterate signs of the struggle and death. Around this woman weave the threads of circumstances and suspicions whose unraveling takes up the course of the story. Assistant district attorney Stephen Ryder, friend of the slain man, investigates and immediately finds himself faced with a determined woman who may or may not be telling him the truth, but is desperate for his help."Good rousing thriller by this versatile and accomplished writer, who always gives us the worth of our money . . ." (1931 review)For more classic mystery thrillers, visit Coachwhip Books.

This fourth Coachwhip anthology of weird botanical and fungal entities collects 21 stories with menacing flowers from the darkest corners of the globe, invasive seeds from outer space, botanical experiments gone awry, and expeditions encountering mythical green horrors. From the uncanny nature of our vast forests and jungles to the scientific manipulation of vegetational genes, the world of plants and fungi offers a vast wellspring of inspiration for writers of speculative fiction, and these anthologies have shown the many strange and different ideas that take root under cover of darkness.Stories included are: Phalaenopsis Gloriosa (1905) by Edgar Wallace, The Tree That Eats (1908) by Brew Molohan, The Devil Plant (1923) by Lyle Wilson Holden, Fungus Isle (1923) by Philip M. Fisher, Mandrake (1923) by Adam Hull Shirk, Si Urag of the Tail (1923) by Oscar Cook, The Gray Death (1923) by Loual B. Sugarman, The Man-Trap (1925) by Hamilton Craigie, The Plant-Thing (1925) by R. G. Macready, Dorner Cordaianthus (1925) by Hester Holland, The Devil-Plant (1928) by John Murray Reynolds, The Gas-Weed (1929) by Stanton A. Coblentz, Up Irriwaddy Way (1929) by Lieutenant Edgar Gardiner, Moss Island (1930) by Carl Jacobi, The Giant Puffball (1931) by Eugene Stowell, At the Bend of the Trail (1934) by Manly Wade Wellman, Seeds from Space (1935) by Laurence Manning, The Moaning Lily (1935) by Emma Vanne, The Glowworm Flower (1936) by Stanton A. Coblentz, Forest of Evil (1938) by John Murray Reynolds, and Seed (1946) by Jack Snow.

On a cold snowy night when the church choir met for practice, young organist Carol Tolliver didn't show up. That's when Tess King dropped her music behind the choir pew, and picked it up-screaming.It is hard to associate a church with violence. Alec MacDonald, Dean of St. Thomas's, wouldn't believe that such a thing could happen. Tess, his secretary, and Alec's wife, Ruth, were more realistic.In no time criminal investigator Ran Garrison appeared, and close on his heels, Bishop Walters-who in a pinch proved as proficient at turning up clues as he was at tossing a salad. "An unusually penetrating picture of a small community, with a double murder in a church as the high light. Practically every member of the choir, around which the story is built, is a suspect, and there are times when the young rector almost seems involved. Inspector Ran Garrison, assisted no little by his girl friend, who is also the rector's secretary, and a cooking bishop come through with the answers. . . ." (1946 review)No Face to Murder was first published in 1946. This edition includes bibliographic introduction by Curtis Evans.For more vintage mysteries, visit Coachwhip Books.

Mary Thorpe does her part for the war effort in the bustling little city of Nashiona (now bursting at the seams with trainees from the army school), mostly aiding her father who works with the USO. But military recruits are only temporarily stationed here, so she joins a local theater group to mix in with the locals. Things are going well, until the troupe is forced to work with a former colleague, now a famous New York playwright, Gordon Kearnes, who wants to test a new play. Mary doesn't understand the hostile reactions, and it gets worse as Kearnes insists on including actress, and diva, Nola Powers. Mary does her best to navigate the capricious waters, but soon finds herself entangled in a murder investigation-with herself as one of the suspects! It soon becomes apparent that this death is linked to the past, and the killer may not be finished . . .Cry Murder was first published in 1944. This edition includes a bibliographic introduction by Curtis Evans.Visit Coachwhip Books for more vintage mystery reprints.

Old Saul Baron has summoned them in time for his funeral, both relatives and those who spoke against him at his trial-seven in all. A missing fortune is at stake and vengeful Saul has planned a treasure-hunt puzzle at an abandoned Arizona gold mine. How far will each go to get their hands on the fortune? When death does arrive, is it murder or accident? Young Helen Farr knows she shouldn't trust anyone, but she's going to stick it out if it kills her . . .Death has Seven Faces was published in 1949. Very little is known about the author, Hugh Austin Evans (1903-1964), though he wrote a number of popular mysteries.For more vintage mystery fiction, visit Coachwhip Books.

Sultan, Sultan, & Sultan, Counselors at Law was among the oldest, mustiest, and most dignified firms in New York, now represented by the last of his line, Wm Sultan, an old-young man who desires nothing more than to work on his uncle's Life & Letters. His staff (he would have been horrified to learn they were known as Sultan's Harem in the building) is bored to tears, and wants something more exciting to bring their careful, respectable employer to life. Murder does the trick. Said staff includes Kelly, Sultan's brunette secretary: chic, sardonic, and the brains of the operation; Roberts, the athletic, blonde receptionist: well able to take care of herself; and Morgan, the red-headed file clerk: impetuous, irrepressible, and capable of speaking several dialects at once while working undercover. Readers who enjoy light, humorous mysteries with entertaining characters and swift plotting will appreciate an introduction to Sultan's Harem.In Drink the Green Water (1948), Wm Sultan discovers a mystery involving a lost toe within some dusty correspondence, leading to shenanigans with the possible heirs of the Silliman fortune-and murder.In The Milkmaid's Millions (1948), Wm Sultan is goaded by his staff into helping a demure, young milkmaid who stands to inherit a fortune. Not everyone appreciates his help, and it isn't long before Sultan himself is the target of a police investigation for murder. Sultan finds he must deal not only with the District Attorney, but with the Harem's own unorthodox actions to keep him safe.For more vintage detective fiction, print and epub, visit Coachwhip Books.

The Crimson Hair Murders (1936): Once more, the Baron von Kaz finds himself destitute, as the family fortune he expected to inherit turned out more myth than substance. His miserable attempts to compose a letter to his fiancée (for how could he marry without money?) are interrupted when he stumbles across an intricate plot to kill an heiress and steal her fortune.The Broken Face Murders (1940): Finally, the Baron von Kaz has married, avowing retirement from the detective business, but the honeymoon is rudely interrupted by a strange little man desperate for the Baron's help. Death soon follows, and the Baron finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy with a target on his back. He must call upon all of his cunning and skills to solve the mystery and protect his beautiful wife and their future happiness.This is the second volume of the adventures of the brave Baron von Kaz. For additional mysteries from the golden age of detective fiction, visit CoachwhipBooks.com.

Ian Craig, professor of Philosophy, turns amateur sleuth in a pair of university-focused murder mysteries in the 1930s.

The Ticking Terror Murders (1935): The Baron Franz Maximilian Karagôz und Von Kaz, formerly a high-level Austrian detective, now a political exile, arrives penniless in California, and quickly jumps at a chance for employment. Is motion picture star Lucille Tarn's husband trying to kill her? Murder changes the direction of the Baron's investigation, but he finds himself hampered by cultural differences, his own pride, and a quick temper. California is a long way from Austria, and these barbarous North Americans just don't understand how brave and brilliant the Baron truly is . . .The Feather Cloak Murders (1936): Baron von Kaz, the brave, conceited, romantic, ruthless detective, finds himself hampered in his plans to return to Austria by mysterious events that incite his suspicions and the lovely Caryl Miquet for whom he is falling, despite her seeming disinterest. With his dangerous green umbrella and overbearing mannerisms, the Baron must outmaneuver a desperate murderer who is willing to kill man, woman, or child to acquire a valuable cultural artifact.This is volume 1, reprinting the adventures of the brave Baron von Kaz. For more classic mysteries, visit CoachwhipBooks.com.